Sat K-dramas Kick Off Another Round of Competition as MBC Sageuk Knight Flower Hits High of 12.5% Ratings and Newcomer jTBC’s Dr. Slump Premieres with 4.060%

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The shining winner of the weekend K-dramas (and by that I mean anything airing Fri-Sat or Sat-Sun) has to be MBC sageuk Knight Flower. The Honey Lee starring vehicle is nearly doubled in ratings since its premiere and the latest episode 6 got 12.5%. Prestige sageuk Captivating the King with Jo Jung Seok and Shin Se Kyung is steady in … Continue reading →

Youku Confirms Period C-drama Phoenix Stage and Releases Teaser Posters with Leads Allen Ren and Peng Xiao Ran

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So Allen Ren is super busy with one drama filming after another but sadly for me the one I was looking forward to the most is in the same predicament as Liu Yu Ning and his upcoming dramas. While Liu Yu Ning’s Prisoner of Beauty is stuck as the prisoner of purgatory due to female lead Song Zu Er, same … Continue reading →

Wallace Chung to Cameo in Period C-drama Zang Hai Zhuan Playing Xiao Zhan’s Father

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A little birdie in the industry casting mill has news that makes me super happy. Veteran leading man Wallace Chung will be doing a cameo appearance in the currently filming period C-drama Zang Hai Zhuan starring Xiao Zhan and Zhang Jing Yi. He will be playing Xiao Zhan’s father which makes his totally zaddy level and probably not long for … Continue reading →

Period C-drama A Dream Within a Dream Headlining Liu Yu Ning is Back with Li Yi Tong as the Female Lead

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Okay so this is a sigh of relief for me lol, because I want to keep looking forward to this drama. The period C-drama A Dream Within a Dream (书卷一梦 or A Dream Within a Book) has signed on Liu Yu Ning for some time and initially Li Yi Tong was the female lead. The it became Yang Chao Yue … Continue reading →

Both Sword and Fairy C-dramas Adapted From Chinese Paladin Games are Industry Flops But Consensus is CP6 is Less Bad than CP4

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It was just a production scheduling screw up that Chinese Paladin 4 adaptation Sword and Fairy 4 and Chinese Paladin 6 adaptation Sword and Fairy (just that, no 6 in the title) aired at the exact same time. Okay, one day apart in premiere but who’s quibbling, or perhaps that’s exactly the same difference in it’s reception. Industry pundits are … Continue reading →

Li Hong Yi Loses Fans After He Tries to Calm Their Furor Over Him Getting Second Billing to Wang Chu Ran in Director Guo Jing Ming’s Next C-drama

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This billing order shit is getting out of had, but then again it flares up and peters out in waves so I hope it dies down again ASAP. A new drama got cast this week and it’s relatively high profile, it’s the next drama from director and screenwriter Guo Jing Ming (Edward Guo) whose most recent drama was the stylish … Continue reading →

Zhao Lu Si and Liu Yu Ning Look Great Together and Continue Strong Costar Chemistry in New BTS Filming Pictures From C-drama The Legend of Jewelry

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Filming is still underway for Tang dynasty period C-drama The Legend of Jewelry, which takes former second lead costars Zhao Lu Si and Liu Yu Ning from The Long Ballad and gives them the level up to leads for this big budget drama. Not gonna lie, I am so pumped for this drama it’s not even funny, especially on the … Continue reading →

Plans for the K-drama The Queen Lives in Seoul with Han Ye Seul Cancelled After Failing to Find Interested Networks or Available Time Slots

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There are some stars one just vibes that his or her career is basically over and I sense that from K-actress Han Ye Seul. And I mean only her career as a leading lady in K-ent, she can still be a celebrity in many ways but the decade where she was a top leading drama actress is now ten years … Continue reading →

Sword and Fairy 4 with Ju Jing Yi and Chen Zhe Yuan Hilariously Has Landing Page Poster Billing Blooper Putting in Names Liu Shi Shi and Liu Yu Ning Instead

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After all that public fighting over billing order for Sword and Fairy 4 (Chinese Paladin 4), this mix up is especially funnier and more karmic for the production company. This week on one of the streaming landing pages for the drama, eagle eyed viewers noticed that the names of leads Ju Jing Yi and Chen Zhe Yuan instead read Liu … Continue reading →

Gong Hyo Jin in Talks for Revenge Thriller K-movie Gyeongju Trip Playing a Mom of Four Avenging the Death of Her Child with Park So Dam as the Younger Sister

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I can totally see K-actress Gong Hyo Jin working a lot in the next two years, what with her singer husband Kevin Oh currently serving in the military after enlisting for his service last month in December 2023. She has the big budget K-drama When Stars Talk opposite Lee Min Ho coming out sometime this year and now she’s in … Continue reading →

Dilraba Dilmurat’s Fans Do Not Want Chen Zhe Yuan as Her Male Lead in Love in the Turquoise Land After the Billing Fan War with Ju Jing Yi in Sword and Fairy 4

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It frustrates me to no end when a star’s own fandom ends up being his or her worst enemy, and this happens a lot in C-ent moreso than other industries. In trying to promote and fight for their own star, it ends up leaving other fans disliking said star. The latest backfire is with Chen Zhe Yuan, who just got … Continue reading →

C-movie Adaptation of The Journey of Flower with Chen Du Ling and Toby Lee Majorly Flops with Terrible Reviews

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Being a mom I’ve done my share of telling the kids “like, maybe doing that is a baaaad idea, baby” and dealing with either agreement or insistence on going ahead. The decision to make a C-movie adaptation of The Journey of Flower from the original source novel nearly ten years after the hit C-drama adaptation just seems like a giant … Continue reading →

Kim Woo Bin Kicks Off Filming for Kim Eun Sook Penned Fantasy Romance K-drama Everything Will Come True Reuniting with Suzy

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So one of the most high profile K-dramas of 2024 has kicked off production as male lead Kim Woo Bin posted a picture of his character name placard on the table of what appears to be the script reading for the drama Everything Will Come True. It’s written by ratings magnet and probably the most well known screenwriter in K-drama … Continue reading →